A word of caution for any weight lifter – you may have a damaging and ineffective workout. Why would a workout be damaging? Have you heard of the concept – overtraining? This something most inexperienced weight lifters simply disregard as unimportant and it’s costing you. So let go over why it’s bad and how you can avoid it.

Did you know that weight lifting with the same muscle without adequate rest will cause injury and reduce the chance for muscle gains? There are also a handful of other problems that go along with overtraining.

When you work a muscle without adequate rest two important things happen. You are at a higher risk of injury because each time you work on a muscle micro tears in the muscle fiber occur. Why would you want to work on an injured muscle? You may not feel the pain, but when you work on the muscle again without adequate rest you have a much higher chance of having an injury, because you muscle is not fully healed from the last workout.

To add more, the workout will be ineffective. In order to gain muscle you need to cause new stimulation. When you workout too soon on the same muscle, as I said before it is still injured. This results in you not being able to give a maximal effort reducing the chance of stimulation to that muscle.

Furthermore, your body learns the motion of a weight lifting exercise. When you constantly do the same exercise your body will not be stimulated as much because it already knows the pattern of the exercise. The key here is new stimulation causes new muscle growth and with overtraining you will have minimal new stimulation if any at all.

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